Listed among the 20 most expensive transfers of football, former Sao Paulo Antony, 25, rediscovered good football in Spain.
Since debut for Betis in early February, the striker has become critical in Seville’s team, which has since, in 12 games, has won eight, tied two and lost two.
In these matches, Antony scored four goals and gave passes for teammates to make four others.
The immediate positive impact yields praise from Betis coach, Chilean Manuel Pellegrini, and made one of his colleagues, Bait, 32, suggest to fans a kitty for the Brazilian to stay longer at the club.
“We need to do a crowdfunding so that he can be at least another year,” said the team, the team’s top scorer this season, with nine goals, five times winner of Champions League with Real Madrid and Spain starter at the Russian World Cup in 2018.
A joke? It may be, but Isco knows that Betis, a team without portentous economic resources, will have tremendous difficulty to continue Antony, who receives a monthly salary of over $ 5 million.
Shirt 7, which is loaned until June, has a two -year -old with Manchester United, which paid him 95 million euros (R $ 586 million for the current exchange rate) to Dutch Ajax, in the middle of 2022.
This value leaves Antony on the list of the 20 most expensive negotiations in football. The top is occupied by Neymar, who in 2017 was from Barcelona to Paris for 222 million euros.
In England, the skilled player, a left -handed one who performs on the right end, failed to repeat the good performances that surrendered the call, by Tite, to the 2022 World Cup at Qatar.
He was in the field – replaced Raphinha – in the elimination, penalties, in the quarterfinals against Croatia.
After that, he only had a chance in the Brazilian National Team once, as a substitute for a friendly against Morocco in March 2023, when the coach was the interim Ramon Menezes. It was not prestigious by Fernando Diniz or Dorival Júnior.
Manchester United, he created fame as a firulent, with many dribbles, mostly without objectivity, and little efficiency (goals and assists). Before being loaned to Betis, he had shook his nets once in 2024/2025 in September by the English League Cup.
Coincidence or not, its income worsened from the moment (mid-2023) in which the accusation of domestic violence made by an ex-girlfriend emerged. The inquiry, a year later, ended without indictment.
Increasingly warming the reserve bench on the clauding team directed by Portuguese Ruben Amorim, the striker has reached an agreement to change his air and gain playing time.
With Antony starter, Betis improved a lot. There are seven unbeaten games, six wins, sixth place in the Spanish Championship (between 20 clubs) and the classification for the quarterfinals of the Conference League, one of the European interclubes.
If you continue in a good phase, you may have a chance to appear in the national team, which is currently without a technician after Dorival’s resignation. In their position, the direct rivals today are Savinho (Manchester City) and Stephen (Palmeiras).
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